HR: 11:32h
AN: IN52A-07    [Abstracts]
TI: The CF Conventions: Governance and Community Issues in Establishing Standards for Representing Climate, Forecast, and Observational Data
AU: * Rew, R K
EM: russ@unidata.ucar.edu
AF: University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, P.O. Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307-3000, United States
AU: Drach, R S
EM: drach@llnl.gov
AF: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Box 808, L-103, Livermore, CA 94551-0808, United States
AU: Eaton, B
EM: eaton@ucar.edu
AF: National Center for Atmospheric Research, P.O. Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307-3000, United States
AU: Gregory, J
EM: j.m.gregory@reading.ac.uk
AF: Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, PO Box 243, Reading, RG6 6BB, United Kingdom
AU: Hankin, S
EM: Steven.C.Hankin@noaa.gov
AF: NOAA/PMEL, 7600 Sand Point Way N, Seattle, WA 98115-0070, United States
AU: Lawrence, B
EM: b.n.lawrence@rl.ac.uk
AF: British Atmospheric Data Centre, CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, nr Didcot, Oxf OX11 0QX, United Kingdom
AU: Lowry, R
EM: rkl@bodc.ac.uk
AF: British Oceanographic Data Centre, 6 Brownlow Street, Liverpool, L3 5DA, United Kingdom
AU: Taylor, K
EM: taylor13@llnl.gov
AF: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Box 808, L-103, Livermore, CA 94551-0808, United States
AB: The Climate and Forecast (CF) conventions governing metadata have become important to earth system science communities as a standard way of capturing the meaning of multidimensional data and the intent of data providers. The CF Conventions have proved useful for comparing conforming data from different sources and for unambiguously determining the space-time location of data. Originally developed and maintained by a small group in the climate modeling community, the CF Conventions have recently transitioned to a community governance structure. We discuss the process of evolving the development, maintenance, and community governance of an international data standard, as well as successes, challenges, and issues in maintaining and scaling the standard to broader uses through an open process.
UR: http://www.cfconventions.org/
DE: 0434 Data sets
DE: 0466 Modeling
DE: 0520 Data analysis: algorithms and implementation
DE: 0525 Data management
SC: Earth and Space Science Informatics [IN]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting